Culture | FilmSecrets and samuraisDerek Malcom|Evening Standard10 April 2012Successor to Yoji Yamada's fine Twilight Samurai, The Hidden Blade has Masatoshi Nagase's gentle samurai falling for Takako Matsu's servant girl, and finding the class-ridden code of the time makes his love impossible.Yamada sets his story in the mid-19th century when Western influences were beginning to make the samurai code seem hopelessly old-fashioned.It is the end of an era the director depicts shrewdly.The Hidden Blade Cert: cert15MORE ABOUTJapan